Blackbrook Reservoir is a 33.4-hectare (83-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Shepshed and Whitwick in Leicestershire.

In eleven minutes the reservoir was empty and as a result local farmland was ruined, sheep were drowned, and much of Shepshed and nearby Loughborough were affected by flood waters.

The present gravity dam was constructed in 1906 and was officially opened by the first Mayor of Loughborough Joseph Griggs.

The tremors caused heavy coping stones to shift and cracks appeared in the faces of the dam.

This is a public footpath which eventually leads you out on the Oaks Road, near Mount St Bernard Abbey.